It's the shortest road trip in sports! The Jets play a road game on their home field tonight against the Giants, the annual preseason game for bragging rights. That is bragging rights over which team has better third and fourth stringers.

It's another chance for Mark Sanchez to face a tough pass rush. It's also the last chance for the starters to get real game reps before the regular season since they'll be pulled early next week to rest up for the Houston game.

Discuss the game below.

Not that preseason really matters, but it would be nice if the Jets could at least hold their own against an elite defense on national television.

The most important thing really is the makeshift offensive line keeping Mark Sanchez in one piece. We'll see what the rookie is made of tonight.

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The next step to getting a real game.

We can look forward to:

• Mark Sanchez's first game appearance in green and white
• Seeing whether Vernon Gholston can make an impact
• Figuring out who starts next to Jerricho Cotchery
• The untold battle for the third quarterback spot between Erik Ainge and Chris Pizzotti, perhaps to become Sanchez's long term backup
• Seeing how much depth is really on the line with three starters out

Leave your in game thoughts in the comments section.

This week's game thread will be different from the fourteen that came before it this season. It covers the three games involving the Jets this weekend. Jets fans will have their day begin at 1:00 with the Buffalo-New England tilt and continue at 4:00 as Baltimore and Jacksonville prepare to engage. Jets fans will only be able to glance at that contest in passing because nothing it relevant unless New York defeats Miami at the same time. Gang Green needs to win its own and hope one of the other two breaks its way. Even with all the negativity and hopelessness that has surrounded this franchise for the past month, I am not ready for this thing to end. I cannot and will not resign myself to another year of heartbreak until the final gun sounds in either the Meadowlands or Baltimore, and it is officially over. If you are going today, get in your seat early and make the stadium so loud that Chad Pennington cannot hear himself think. Leave everything on the field.

Leave any pre or in game thoughts for any of the three critical games in the comments section.

Can the Jets keep their division hopes alive? Will Brett Favre ruin his former coach's special day? Can this team finally win on the West Coast after losing three games to teams with losing records on their first three such trips? Is the pass defense so bad that even Seneca Wallace can torch it? All of these questions will be answered in this game. Leave any thoughts in the comments section.

The Playoffs begin today. The Jets need three wins to get in. If they cannot beat a Bills team that stopped playing competitive football over a month ago, the season is over. Leave any in game thoughts in the comments section.

The Jets will either show their performance last week was a fluke or a legitimate cause for concern in this trip to San Francisco. Maybe they can have a successful trip to the West Coast for the first time all year. Leave any in game thoughts in the comments section.

We are in the home stretch. The Jets are jockeying for Playoff positioning. Can they take care of business against the inconsistent Broncos at a sloppy Giants Stadium? Leave any thoughts in the comments section.

The Jets have a chance to officially arrive as one of the league's elite with an upset win. Leave any in game thoughts in the comments section.

There is a good chance we will look back on tonight as the night the East was either won or lost in 2008. Leave any in game thoughts in the comments section.

Note: For fans in the New York area without the NFL Network, this game will also be on CW 11.